Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) stood by the president as the Trump Organization faces questions over the sources of its recent cryptocurrency windfall .

During a Tuesday appearance on CNN’s “ The Lead with Jake Tapper, ” Comer praised President Donald Trump for his “ transparency ” after a Reuters examination revealed his family’s business empire collected more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025.

“We’re reading about this, we’re trying to digest it,” Comer told Tapper. “The difference between the way the Trump family is operating and the Biden family is, they’re admitting they’re doing this.”

In 2023, Comer, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, launched an investigation into then-President Joe Biden over his family’s alleged foreign “influ

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